Hearing Implant Sound Quality Index (HISQUI19) Questionnaire for Subjective Sound Quality Detection

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1 Hearing Implant Sound Quality Index (HISQUI19) Questionnaire for Subjective Sound Quality Detection 1

2 Hearing Implant Sound Quality Index (HISQUI19) Date of questionnaire completion / / day/month/year Date of birth / / day/month/year Gender Female Male Hearing Status Left Ear Right Ear Unaided hearing/normal hearing Unaided hearing/normal hearing Aided with Implant Aided with Implant Aided with Hearing aid Aided with Hearing aid No hearing No hearing Duration of hearing loss in Years Date of Implantation Left Ear: day/month/year* Right Ear: day/month/year* / / / / Implant Type Left Ear Right Ear Cochlear Implant (CI) Cochlear Implant (CI) Middle Ear Implant (VSB) Middle Ear Implant (VSB) Bone Conduction Implant Bone Conduction Implant Electric-acoustic stimulation (EAS) Electric-acoustic stimulation (EAS) Auditory brainstem-implant (ABI) Auditory brainstem-implant (ABI) No Implant No Implant *If the exact date is not available, please specify just the year of implantation 2

3 The Questionnaire measures, how good or poorly you find the sound quality from your hearing implant in your personal, everyday listening situation. Please check the answer boxes which correspond the closest to your everyday experiences. Each answer option also includes a percentage value. This percentage value will help you answering the questions: almost always, for example, means that your statement is currently correct about 87% of the time. If a specific situation/statement is not applicable, please check the box N/A = not applicable. Always Almost Frequently Mostly Occasionally Rarely Never N/A (99%) always (75%) (50%) (25%) (12%) (1%) (87%) 1. Can you effortlessly distinguish between a male and a female voice? 2. When talking on the phone, can you effortlessly understand the voices of familiar people? 3. When listening to music, can you effortlessly distinguish whether one or multiple instruments are being played simultaneously? 4. When background noise is present, can you effortlessly participate in a conversation with friends or family members (e.g. at a party/ in a restaurant)? 5. Can you effortlessly hear noises such as falling keys, the beeping of the microwave or the purring of a cat? 6. Can you effortlessly distinguish single instruments in a familiar piece of music? 3

4 Always Almost Frequently Mostly Occasionally Rarely Never N/A (99%) always (75%) (50%) (25%) (12%) (1%) (87%) 7. You are watching a movie on TV and music is playing in the background. Provided that the volume of the TV is loud enough, can you effortlessly understand the movie s text? 8. When talking on the phone, can you effortlessly understand the voices of unfamiliar people? 9. Can you effortlessly understand a speech/ lecture in a hall (e.g. lecture hall, church)? 10. Can you effortlessly distinguish between a female voice and a child s voice (6-10 years of age)? 11. At home when other family members are having a conversation and you are listening to the news on the radio, can you effortlessly understand the news? 12. Can you effortlessly understand the announcement in a bus terminal, a train station or an airport? 13. Can you effortlessly hear the ringing of the phone? 4

5 14. You are listening to friends or family members talking to each other in quiet surroundings. Can you effortlessly identify the talker? 15. You are seated on the back seat of a car and the driver in the front is talking to you. Can you effortlessly understand the driver? 16. Can you effortlessly allocate background noise to a specific sound source (e.g. toilet flushing or vacuum cleaner) using acoustic help only? 17. When other people in your close surrounding are having a conversation (e.g. talking to a salesperson, a bank clerk at the counter or a waiter in a busy restaurant), can you effortlessly talk to another person? 18. When background noise is present (e.g. in the office, printer, copier, air conditioning, fan, traffic noise, in busy restaurants, at parties, noisy children), can you effortlessly participate in a conversation with multiple people? 19. When multiple people are talking simultaneously, can you effortlessly follow discussions of friends and family members? Thank you very much for your support! 5

6 Calculation of the Total score (to be filled out by the tester): The total HISQUI19 score lies between 19 and 133 points. Each response option corresponds to a numerical value (see below). 7 Always 6 Almost always 5 Frequently 4 Mostly 3 Occasionally 2 Rarely 1 Never X N/A Please enter the numerical value of each of the 19 questions in the HISQUI19 evaluation matrix shown below. If a question was not answered or the answer was not applicable (N/A), that question should be treated as a missing value. In the appropriate box in the HISQUI19 evaluation matrix mark the field concerned with an X. HISQUI19 Evaluation Matrix Question 1 Question 11 Question 2 Question 12 Question 3 Question 13 Question 4 Question 14 Question 5 Question 15 Question 6 Question 16 Question 7 Question 17 Question 8 Question 18 Question 9 Question 19 Question 10 Total score The total HISQUI19 score is obtained by adding the numerical values of all 19 questions. The score achieved overall indicates how good or poorly you find the sound quality in your personal, everyday listening situation with your hearing implant. The table should help you to interpret your individual result. Achieved Total Score very poor sound quality < 30 poor sound quality moderate sound quality good sound quality very good sound quality

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